Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loomis has been in India for some time and has been attempting to establish a cache of food at the base of the mountain before the monsoon, which begins very soon, prevents any passage through the gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...
...Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going...
...March, "Le Pere de la Victoire"Ganne *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Spring" (For String Orchestra) Grieg *"Fosterians," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Baron *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, concerning a Scottish community in the Midwest during the Civil War. won the first Harper Prize as well as the Pulitzer Prize for 1923. It was Author Wilson's first book. Since then the 54-year-old novelist, once a missionary to India, has written eight other books, married an Englishman, settled in England, switched publishers. This autumn from Doubleday, Doran she will try a literary comeback with a sequel to her first, and still most noteworthy, work...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...